Betty Asher
American art collector and dealer
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Biography
Asher was born in Chicago on May 4, 1914.[5] The family lived behind the drugstore.[6] Asher attended a normal school (teacher training college) in Chicago for one year before beginning training to become a nurse at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.[6] She graduated as an RN and spent about four years in private nursing.[6]
In 1939, she married Dr. Leonard Asher.[5] They moved to Los Angeles in 1941.[5][7] The couple had two children, Rayna Asher (Allen) and Michael Asher (who would become a well known conceptual artist[8]), and four granddaughters, Pamela, Debra, Rebecca and Taura.
Aside from being a collector, she was curatorial assistant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for 13 years (1966–79), and co-founded and co-owned Asher-Faure Gallery with Patricia Faure from 1979-90.
Asher died at her home in Beverly Hills on May 11, 1994.[9][10] Her papers were donated to the Getty Research Institute in 2010.[11]
